The Juggler: Rachilde - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ma Vallette-Eymery Rachilde (1860-1953), Melanie C. Hawthorne (Translator), Melanie C. Hawthorne (Introduction by)Publish date:1990-09-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813516257ISBN-10:813516250UPC:9780813516257Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Feminist, World LiteratureBook Topic:FranceSize:8.48 x 5.54 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCA1K12P33
The Juggler: Rachilde
The Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a "decadent" novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1953), who used the pseudonym Rachilde, was a prolific novelist (over sixty works of fiction), playwright, literary critic and reviewer, and a forceful presence in French literary society of her time. The protagonist of the novel, Eliante Donalger, is in some sense an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rutgers University PressISBN-13:9780813516257ISBN-10:813516250UPC:9780813516257Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Feminist, World LiteratureBook Topic:FranceSize:8.48 x 5.54 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCA1K12P33
RACHILDE was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist and playwright MARGUERITE VALLETTE-EYMERY (February 11, 1860 - April 4, 1953). Born near Périgueux, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France during the Second French Empire, Rachilde went on to become a symbolist author and the most prominent woman in literature associated with the Decadent Movement of fin de siècle France.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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